Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round: In The Round Festival ('77 - '87)

The In The Round Festival, first staged from 1960 - 1968 (see here), was revived by Alan Ayckbourn - probably with the encouragement of Ken Boden - in 1977 at the Stephen Joseph Theatre In The Round. Alan himself adjudicated the first several festivals which attracted entrants from throughout the Yorkshire region.

Sadly, even less details of the revived In The Round Festivals are held in archive than for the Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre years, but what details that survive are reproduced below.
1977 (10-12, 17-19 March) - Tenth Festival
Adjudicator: Alan Ayckbourn

Scarborough Sixth Form College
Outsiders Drama (Scarborough)
Hull Garret Players
Wheatcroft School (Scarborough)
Outsiders Drama (Scarborough)
Scalby School (Scarborough)
The Apollo Players (Whitby)
Wolfreton Theatre Group (Hull)
The Nomads (Wetherby)
Warwick University Players
Theatre Arts Workshop (Rotherham)

1979 (dates unknown) - Thirteenth Festival
Adjudicator: Alan Ayckbourn

Bridlington Theatre Workshop
No further details known

1980 (11-15 March) - Fourteenth Festival
Adjudicator: Alan Ayckbourn

Eastfield County Youth Centre (Scarborough)
The Original Two (Leeds)
Triangle (Boston Spa)
Scalby School (Scarborough)
Bridlington Theatre Workshop
Cottingham District School
Wheatcroft School (Scarborough)
Scarborough Sixth Form College
Proscenium Players (Leeds)
Whitley Bay Theatre Club
Rotherham Theatre Workshop
St George’s Youth Club
Hull Garret Players

1981 (6-11 April) - Fifteenth Festival
Adjudicator: Alan Ayckbourn

The Pedagogues (Warwick University)
Scarborough Sixth Form College Drama Club
Cresta Players (Scarborough)
Eastfield Youth Centre (Scarborough)
Graham School (Scarborough)
Original II Drama Club (Leeds)
Proscenium Players (Leeds)
The Outsiders (Scarborough)
Bridlington Theatre Workshop
Scalby School (Scarborough)
Young Humberites (Hull)
Company Theatre (Hull)
College Of Arts (Rotherham)
Hull Garret Players
Theatre Club (Whitley Bay)

1982 (3 - 8 May) - Sixteenth Festival
Adjudicator: John Hodgson (Bretton Hall)

Hinderwell Drama Group (Scarborough)
Theatre Arts Workshop (Rotherham)
Bridlington Theatre Workshop
Cresta Players (Scarborough)
Hunmanby Drama Club
St George Theatre Club (Bradford)
The Original 2 Group (Wetherby)
The Pedagogues
Scalby School (Scarborough)
Hull Garret Players
The Theatre Club (Whitley Bay)

1983 (dates unknown)
Adjudicator: Unknown

1984 (dates unknown)
Adjudicator: Unknown

1985 (22 - 28 April) - Nineteenth Festival
Adjudicator: Mavourneen Dwyer

Hunmanby Drama Group
The Ayton Players
Hunmanby Drama Group
Take Away Theatre
Solitaire Theatre Company
Hinderwell Drama Group (Scarborough)
Open Stage Theatre Company
Theatre Workshop Bridlington
Malvern Players
Pedagogues Dramatic Society
Stepladder Theatre Company
St George's Youth Club (Bradford)
The Original 2 Group (Wetherby)
Theatre Club Whitley Bay
Flat 4 Players
Hull Garret Players
Hull Musical Youth Group

1986 (21 - 26 April) - Twentieth Festival
Adjudicator: Russell Whiteley

Hunmaby Drama Group
Hunmanby Drama Group
Hunmanby Drama Group
Outsiders ADS (Scarborough)
Hull Garret Players
Ayton Players
Victoria Players (Scarborough)
Rowntree Players (York)
The Original 2 (Wetherby)
Theatre Workshop Bridlington
Ayton Players
Hedon Drama Group
Hessle AODS

1987 (6-11 April)
Adjudicator: Russell Whiteley



The Chairs
A Slight Accident
Plaza Suite (act 3)
Born Our Brother
Funeral Dance
Check Point
Ladies in Retirement (act 1)
The Rose and Crown
Smell of Burning
Mill Hill
The Happy Journey




Pieces Of Hate





Show Box Pyramid
After Midnight - Before Dawn
Pastiche
Down By The River
Fools Errand
The Late Miss Cordell
Piggy In The Middle
Snap Out Of It
The Happy Journey
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Super Knut
Here Today. Worry Tomorrow…
In Camera




The Crucible
La Vie Sans Vaches
Audition For A Writer
Having A Lovely Time
Soldier From The War Returning
Parcel
Mutatis Mutandis
Per Ardua Ad Astra
Infectious Diseases
With One Accord
The Insect Play
The What On The Landing
Exception & The Rule
Soldier From The War Returning
Funny, You Don’t Laugh Jewish




The 1861 Whitby Lifeboat Disaster
Final Flight
The Long & The Short & The Tall
Strange Happenings In A Corner of London…
The Laboratory
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
Heroines & Heroes
A Private Man in Athens
Poor John! Poor Jean!
The Waiting Room
A Resounding Tinkle


No further details known


No further details known




Play For Yesterday
Deadline Dawn
Shelter
A Funny Thing
Mother
We Don't Laugh Anymore
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Collection
Night Out
Merry Troopers
Lifelines
Under Milk Wood
Mixed Doubles
With All My Love I Hate You
David's Birthday
The Bear
The Happy Journey




The Dumb Waiter
My Mother Said
Whoudini
Key For Two
Relatively Speaking
At the Changing of the Year
The Walking Wounded
One Season's King
The Suitor
Habeas Corpus
The Space Between The Years
Stress Fracture
The Purging


No further details known



Eugene Ionesco
James Saunders
Neil Simon
Geoffrey Wright
David Campton
Edward Harben
Reginald Denham
J.B. Priestley
David Campton
John Mortimer
Thornton Wilder




Richard Franks





Dave Smart & Paul Bates
David Campton
Nick Hall
Ted Harden
Margaret Wood
Philip Johnson
G. Wright & J. Dickinson
Devised
Thornton Wilder
Edward Albee
Paul Daniels
Devised
Jean-Paul Sartre




Arthur Miller
Tony Waltham & Michael Wood
Doris M Day
Paul bates & Dave Smart
David Campton
David Campton
David Campton
Dorohty Galvin
Richard Franks
Ted Harben
Bertold Brecht
Alan Plater
Bertold Brecht
David Campton
Mike Tibbets




Peter Terson
Andrew Bates
Willis Hall
Devised (TBC)
David Campton
A.M. McAndrew
John Reason
Jonathan Rix
Edward Harben
John Bowen
Not listed


No further details known


No further details known




James Saunders
Anthony Booth
Alun Owen
Paul Burbridge
Neville Smith
Graham Clark
Frances Goodrich
Harold Pinter
Ted Harben
Michael Jones
Djenane Watkins
Dylan Thomas
Various
Lynda Marshal
Gillian Plowman
Chekhov
Thornton Wilder




Harold Pinter
Anne Powell
Brian Jepson
John Chapman
Alan Ayckbourn
Malcolm Young
Donovan Da Silva
George MacEwan Green
Leonard Horley
Alan Bennett
John Scholes
Steve Twinn
George Feydeau


No further details known
All research by Simon Murgatroyd. All information on this page is held at Scarborough Library in the Stephen Joseph Theatre Collection.